(October 23, 2009) Scientists have found out how the fungal disease chytridiomycosis kills its victims.

The fungus is slowly spreading through populations of frogs and other amphibians worldwide, and has made some species extinct in only a few years.

Researchers have now reported in the journal Science that the fungus kills by changing the animals' electrolyte balance, resulting in cardiac arrest.

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